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Overview

The Chardonnay grapes used to make this wine are sourced primarily from the Wyjup and Bouverie vineyards, planted during the late 60’s and early 70’s and the Crystal Brook vineyard.

Region:

WA - Mount Barker

State:

Western Australia

Country:

Australia

Expert Reviews

Wild-fermented in French barriques with extended lees maturation of 10 months after the conclusion of fermentation in those barrels. Plantagenet was one of the pioneers of chardonnay in the Great Southern, and its experience shows through with the combination of elegance and intensity of the varietal fruit, oak in respectful support, as is bright acidity. Rating 95 - Drink by 2024, James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion (SEP/2015).

Winery Tasting Notes

The palate offers concentrated flavours of grapefruit and lime balanced by bold natural acidity, making this wine mouth watering and more-ish. Composed with excellent line and length and enhanced by subtle French oak and savoury, brioche characters.

Vintage

2014

Region

WA - Mount Barker

Grape Style

Chardonnay

Closure Type

Screwcap closure

Alcohol

13.5%

Winery Profile

Plantagenet takes its name not only from its home, but also from its heritage. In 1968 in a stroke of serendipity English migrant Tony Smith, himself a descendent of the Plantagenet's, invested his small inheritance in a farm called Bouverie in Western Australia’s Plantagenet Shire.

He first planted Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon followed by Riesling three years later.

The first wines from these young vines were tight and lean and showed the elegant spice and fruit characters for which this area was to become known.